Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات) Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد

Content

Treatise on the mathematical sciences (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) excerpted from the works of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), edited and translated into Persian by his student Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني). The treatise is meant as a supplement to Ibn Sīnā's Wisdom for ʿAlāʾ (حكمة علائي), more commonly known by its Persian title The Book of Wisdom for ʿAlāʾ (دانشنامه علائى), which presented in Persian his teachings on logic, metaphysics, and physics.

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Contents:

• Treatise on the Elements of Geometry (رساله در اصلهاى هندسه, ff. 310v-320v);
• Treatise on the Science of Observation and Organisation of the Heavens (رساله در علم رصد وهيات سمان, ff. 320v-332v);
• Treatise on the Science of Arithmetic (رساله در ارثماطيقى, ff. 332v-338r);
• Treatise on the Science of Music (رساله در علم موسيقى, ff. 338r-342v).

Extent and format

Ff. 310v-342v

It is part of

Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)

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Ref: Add MS 16659

Written in

Persian and Farsi in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v

History of this record

Date(s)

1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Related material

Finding aids

• Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 978, pp. 447-51
• Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum , 3 vols. (London: The British Museum, 1879-83), vol. 2, pp. 438-39

Select Bibliography

Studies:

• Dhanani, Alnoor, 'Jūzjānī: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , edited by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 604-05
• Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 318, p. 128

Subjects

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900Astronomy--Early works to 1800Geometry--Early works to 1800Music theory--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid JūzjānīAvicenna

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Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات) Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 310v-342v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00000e> [accessed 7 November 2024]

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